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NEWS YOU CAN USE FROM VANDYKE SOFTWARE® We hope you can shoehorn this issue into your busy holiday schedules. To make it worth your while, we tried to make things interesting and maybe a bit lighter than usual. First, an update on SecureCRT® and SecureFX® product development brings good news. Then, sysadmins looking for a better way to analyze Secure Shell log files get help with a syslog-ng tip from our VShell™ product manager. Finally, we have an interview (and a chance to win a free book) with the "other Raffi", author of "TiVo Hacks" and the Mehack blog.– ------------- 1. SecureCRT 5.0 and SecureFX 3.0: Development Steams Ahead --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since we published a preview of major upgrade plans for the SecureCRT and SecureFX products, development and testing have gone ahead full steam. You were hoping for a fresh face, maybe? Well, SecureCRT gets a major overhaul with a tabbed session interface, to manage screen real estate and the dangerous proliferation of windows. But if you want to use multiple windows they are still available. The big interface feature for SecureFX is the ability to run multiple instances. SecureFX can also help penetrate the workday noise by using sound file support to alert you to connection status. Otherwise, development focus continues to be on simplifying shell and file transfer operations. Shared session configuration means that you can create a session in SecureCRT or SecureFX and then use that session in both clients. With an "Open SecureFX" tab in SecureCRT, launching a SFTP connection is just a click away. And for the ultimate in personal defense (with no concealed carry permit required), both applications now run from a USB drive (SecureCRT had this ability about a year ago). About the end of January, the alpha forum at forums.vandyke.com will evolve into its beta successor. But why not jump in before that? If you have finished your holiday shopping, we welcome your help in the ongoing alpha testing for SecureFX and CRT™. Those interested should send e-mail to . Any of you who are waiting until the products are out of alpha development to try the new features will be invited to join in the larger public testing cycle. For more on the upgrade story, visit the VanDyke Software web site: http://www.vandyke.com/support/tips/upgrade_preview.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- syslog-ng, or syslog next generation, is an open source audit trail processing tool that is an alternative to standard UNIX system logging software. Logging has never been more in the public eye, with more stringent government oversight of many industries and the use of logs in recent high-profile court cases. This tip shows you how to configure syslog-ng for use with VShell for UNIX and gives you two filtering examples to log specific VShell log entries to unique files. With syslog-ng, you can set up filters, send log entries to both your local machine and to a centralized secure logging server (using port forwarding), log to a mysql database, or rewrite log messages into a specific format. For the complete syslog-ng tip including a sample configuration file, please visit the VanDyke Software web site: http://www.vandyke.com/support/tips/logging.html ------------------------------------------------- This month the News visits with a particularly interesting SecureCRT
user. Raffi Krikorian is an MIT graduate student and Media Lab researcher
who is involved in what most of us would call futurist projects on networks
and computing. He is also a quintessential 21st century public thinker
and To read the extended interview with Raffi Krikorian (and enter a drawing to win a signed copy of "TiVo Hacks", courtesy of O'Reilly Media), visit the VanDyke Software web site: http://www.vandyke.com/news/newsletters/resources/tivohks.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Product innovation never sleeps. We recently started a new thread in
the Roadmap forum, http://forums.vandyke.com/forumdisplay.php?f=10 ---------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus.com has launched a new series of in-depth articles on Secure Shell, authored by Brian Hatch, a UNIX/Linux and network security consultant at Onsight, Inc. He is also author of "Hacking Linux Exposed", "Building Linux VPNs", and the "Linux Security: Tips, Tricks, and Hackery" newsletter. You can find out more about Brian and read back issues of his newsletter at: http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com Here are three recent articles published on SecurityFocus.com.
----------------------- A maintenance update of the official release of VShell server 2.3.3 was made December 9, 2004. You can download new and previous releases at: http://www.vandyke.com/download/latestreleases.html --------------------------- The following lists the latest official product releases: To download any of the current releases, go to: http://www.vandyke.com/download/latestreleases.html All VanDyke Software products may be downloaded and evaluated free for 30 days. Licenses include one year of free upgrades and unlimited access to our expert technical support.
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